Over 160,000 PS Vitas, 525,000 PS3 Sold During Black Friday Week

With Sony aggressively bundling and price cutting the PS3 and PS Vita during the US' busy Black Friday, hundreds of thousands of gamers have bought themselves a Christmas present they won't regret. - PSLS

Wow. Surprised that sales were actually up compared to last year. Everyone has seen a decline in the US this year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the first time we've actually seen a system sell more than last year. This bodes well for the PS3 and Vita this holiday season.

I also think Sony needs to advertise the hell out of PSN+. It's a huge feather in their cap.

The US is actually in a recovery at the moment, and Black Friday spending is up 14% from last year. Hopefully this trend will keep on through 2013. My family's small business has had it's best year ever, and it's been around since the 60's, so that's good for us. More games for me :D

I agree about advertising. It's common knowledge to us, but most people without a PS3 have no clue what the system offers. Once they find out, it becomes something they're interested in.

While the U.S. economy has been on the rebound, darkride66's comment spoke to the sales of consoles. The PS3 is the only console to sell more this year than last during Black Friday. The 360 was down some 210,000 sold. The Wii was down from last year (but the original DS was up) as well. Sony was up 9% from last Black Friday.

Wish they'd drop the price of the memory cards. They're outrageously overpriced for what they are, I think I even read that they have pretty low speeds compared to the higher end (non proprietary) cards, meaning 80+ is way too much.

The 32gb cards should be $50 at MAX. I'm one of the people who decided to bite on the AC3:L bundle on Black Friday, and while I got a great deal with a ton of games, I'll only be able to play one of them at a time, then delete that game, download something else and then play that.

those numbers are extremely high. I was expecting around 70,000 at the most. With vita fighting against the more appealing ps3 and 360 bundles I didn't expect the numbers to be that high. Then you have the Wii U and the 3DS. I in all honesty didn't expect it to sell this much at all.

160,000 Vita is good, but Sony needs to have deals like that after the holidays as well. Congrats, 160,000 shoppers picked up an excellent deal, but what will that amount to starting January and throughout 2013?

Don't rely on VGChartz, though their estimates are generally good; it's their cumulatives that are off. Microsoft announced 70 million sold units about a month prior to Sony announcing the same feat, and the PS3 was handily outselling the Xbox 360 worldwide on a weekly basis for nearly the whole year (and almost every year). Now, since we're approaching Christmas, America universally celebrates it with gifts, unlike non-christain denominations, other countries, etc., so we can expect the Xbox 360 to expand its 100k-300k margin by a bit; however, once the holiday crazy dies down, I predict that the PS3 will finally surpass the 360 worldwide. I like both systems, and I'm glad to see them both doing well. I also find it remarkable that the PS3 matched the 360's sales in a year less. Anyone who says any console failed this generation is just uninformed/trolling. Celebrate that we're heading out of the recession!

I'm surprised that bundle only sold as many as it did. Sony should have made that bundle deal up until Christmas. They would actually have a major user base to tell third-parties that they need to start developing some games for it.

It would need a steady stream of games for that to happen. One title or one bundle will not do it. That's reality.

Hopefully the people circle jerking and playing Sony corporate cheerleader won't disagree with this comment, but knowing N4G is full of fanboys, I won't surprised if a lot of people do, despite history agreeing with me.

Your comments are filled with disagrees because you come off as a jerk, it has nothing to do with what you're saying anymore. Maybe if you stopped talking out of your a$$ people would take what you say with more objectivity.

edit: I'd rather sound like a jerk than sound like a corporate cheerleader.

Methinks you only said I was talking out of my ass not because what I said wasn't true (history actually agrees with me, after all, unlike what most people here are saying), but because I struck a nerve with you. So unfortunate. No need to act so pissy, bud.

See, history actually doesn't agree with you, and no one else does either as evidenced by your complete LACK of agrees (at the time of this writing).

I think you should be asking yourself what is accomplished by being an a$$hat here where you'll just be marked down for trolling or something. What, because you held on to your principles of not saying anything good about the Vita? Oohhh, look at you, aren't you original, aren't you the big man around. Oooh. Pfff. If you really think "we people" take "our system wars" so pathetically seriously (and judging by your tone, that presents some kind of problem for you, or irks you), why participate in discussions that will stick in your craw and bring out the pathetic jerk in you?

Struck a nerve with me? I merely made a statement about your "oh, watch everyone disagree with me because I'm right, I'm so smrt.. I mean smart" remark. If you are seriously that caught up in your own opinion that you think you actually can "strike a nerve" here, then you need to take a vacation to this fantastic place called Outside. It's the most highly recommended vacation spot in the world and there are literally billions of people to interact with. Best of all, it's free. Enjoy.

I almost beat it. wanted to say that passing the middle of the game your powers just become insane, the speed and strength makes you feel really powerful. With that said I still need to increased everything one more time before maxing out all skills.

Nope, now the reports are "a small bump in sales during the holidays isn't enough to stop the Vita from it's death." This is "DA TRUTH" we must all accept. We have no right to argue against the speculation-- err I mean truth./s

considering that at points throughout the year, the 3ds was easily selling (in the US) more than 3:1 and yet on Black Friday week, THE biggest time for buying gifts for yourself and others, the 3DS sold 250K units, 25K units LESS than the DS (see http://gamer.blorge.com/201... while 160K units for the vita is not earth shattering, it certainly brings the vita into atleast an acceptable range of sales when compared to its closest competitor, obviously not in TOTAL sales, but for the week in question. to say otherwise is to be unfair & biased.